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Building Serverless Web Applications

By : Diego Zanon
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Building Serverless Web Applications

By: Diego Zanon

Overview of this book

This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how you can test serverless code in the frontend and backend. Also, we have discussed some key concepts that you must consider in your deployment workflow, and showed how you can monitor serverless applications using Amazon CloudWatch.

Now the book has finished. I hope that you have enjoyed reading through the chapters and have learned enough to build your next awesome application using serverless. You can use the serverless store demo as a reference for your future projects, but don't feel limited to it. Use your own preferred tools to test, to develop the frontend, and to access the database. My objective with this book is not to define a strict pattern of how you should build a serverless application, but to give you an example to prove that the concept is valid and may be a good one for many applications.

Finally, I encourage you to try other cloud providers. This book focuses on AWS due to my own positive experiences, but there are other excellent...